ö and the popular Mayor or Boston (Weidman and Shea 2003, 1).
A year later, Joseph was made the youngest bank president in the country, accepting the position for Columbia Trust Company Bank. Shrewd, ambitious, and tough, Joe Kennedy quickly made a number of investments in film, real estate and liquor that made him wealthy. Joe Kennedy exhibited a ônever give upö attitude and a ôwill to surviveö any struggle that he worked hard to instill in his children. Joe carefully nurtured his eldest sons, Joe, Jr. and John (Jack), to embody these values (See Photo II). The KennedysÆ also worked hard to gain social acceptance among the elite social set of Boston. Known as the ôBrahminsö, Maier (2003) maintains Irish immigrants were viewed as apart from the ôAmerican Dreamö of success, ôBy the turn of the twentieth century, the dream of assimilation in America gave way to resentment among even the most successful Irish Catholics in Bostonö (35).
Through perseverance and hard work, Kennedy eventually gained acceptance for the family in
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